Mailwasher - friend or foe?
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I recently installed Mailwasher in order to try and reduce the volume of Spam I get by bouncing as many as I could.
I have used it religously and added all spam to the blacklist. Problem is, over the last few weeks my spam has increased four fold!
Is Mailwasher a genuine help or another spam generator?
Nick
I have used it religously and added all spam to the blacklist. Problem is, over the last few weeks my spam has increased four fold!
Is Mailwasher a genuine help or another spam generator?
Nick
I just installed Mailwasher to see if it works as I'm getting about 100 or more spam mailings a day. It seems to be helping.
I think that the volume of spam has accelerated over the last few weeks - it's just an impression. I haven't been doing anything different, it's just got worse (10 days holiday recently and returned to 2000 spam emails!)
I think that the volume of spam has accelerated over the last few weeks - it's just an impression. I haven't been doing anything different, it's just got worse (10 days holiday recently and returned to 2000 spam emails!)
Mailwasher seems to work for me. I also use Hiveware's Enkoder - www.hiveware.com/enkoder_form.php - instead of mailto:ben@etc... in my websites. Works a treat!
The trouble with mailwasher is you still have to manually scan your email for:
a) Any geniune emails that have been caught by the anitspam filter
b) To add any addresses that were missed to your local black list.
Also you still have to download all the spam to your PC to process it first which can be time consuming if you're on 56K dial up. It would be good to have a server side or web based filter so you didn't have to download the stuff in the first place.
What do they use in corporate networks? I never see any spam in my office inbox.
a) Any geniune emails that have been caught by the anitspam filter
b) To add any addresses that were missed to your local black list.
Also you still have to download all the spam to your PC to process it first which can be time consuming if you're on 56K dial up. It would be good to have a server side or web based filter so you didn't have to download the stuff in the first place.
What do they use in corporate networks? I never see any spam in my office inbox.
Spam Assaign works a treat.
Coupled in with mailscanner it virus checks and spam checks.
initially i had it just mark the headers as {Spam?} so i could 'tune' it (you set a spam score level, anything over this is spam... takes a while to tune to your requirements)
now i just get it to delete spam on sight.
my mails now down to a hundred or so a day (legit) from a thousand a day.
Coupled in with mailscanner it virus checks and spam checks.
initially i had it just mark the headers as {Spam?} so i could 'tune' it (you set a spam score level, anything over this is spam... takes a while to tune to your requirements)
now i just get it to delete spam on sight.
my mails now down to a hundred or so a day (legit) from a thousand a day.
I use mozilla (and/or thunderbird) to handle my mail. It has built-in spam detection facilities; on one account I get about a hundred spam a day and it successfully moves 95% of them to a separate spam folder. So far there have been no false positives - at least I haven't noticed any!
SpamAssasin sounds great, but seems to be very much geared to running your own Mail Server under Unix, from what I can see.
I really need something that runs under Windows and either integrates with Outlook 2000 or else acts as a POP3 proxy.
I've just installed Cloudmark's SpamNet on PetrolTed's recommendation and will give that a go for the 30 day trial period, but I'd still be interested on hearing from other people on their experiences.
I really need something that runs under Windows and either integrates with Outlook 2000 or else acts as a POP3 proxy.
I've just installed Cloudmark's SpamNet on PetrolTed's recommendation and will give that a go for the 30 day trial period, but I'd still be interested on hearing from other people on their experiences.
JonRB said:
SpamAssasin sounds great, but seems to be very much geared to running your own Mail Server under Unix, from what I can see.
I really need something that runs under Windows and either integrates with Outlook 2000 or else acts as a POP3 proxy.
I've just installed Cloudmark's SpamNet on PetrolTed's recommendation and will give that a go for the 30 day trial period, but I'd still be interested on hearing from other people on their experiences.
SpamAssassin is great, but as you say, it is geared to being run on a mail server, not a windows client.
I use it on a server and it removes almost all the spam I get. I just had a quick look around, and I think www.no-spam-today.com/workstation is basically SpamAssassin for Windows clients?
Hope this helps......
kdd
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